FRANCE: Wives Win

Momentous to every mistress in France last
week was an unexpected decision by the country's highest court, La Cour
de Cassation. Its sprightly old men, who would be considered insipid
and absurd if they did not keep their own quota of mistresses, found on
their calendar in a single day three cases of the same type: a master
has died in an accident, and his wife and children and mistress are
seeking justice. The mistress produces to the court letters from her
late master, rent receipts, paid grocery bills and other evidence
establishing that she is by no means...